[asac] Meeting tomorrow

[Al Wootten]

Please send any additional agenda items we may wish to discuss.
The URL for the WWW version of this is:
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~awootten/mmaimcal/asac/asacjan01agenda.html
and here is what I have received so far:

     ALMA Science Advisory Committee

Draft Agenda for ASAC Telecon Friday 19 January 2001

Conference Date: January 19-2001 (Friday)

Here's the dial-in information for the telecon (last of the millenium):

Conference Date: Jan-19-2001 (Friday)

Conference Time: 10:15 AM EASTERN TIME=15:15 UT

Conference Duration: 1 hr

Service Level: STANDARD

Call Type: MEET ME/DIALOUT

USA Toll Free Number: 1-800-593-0692

Non-USA Number: +1-712-257-2491

PASSCODE: ALMA

Conference Leader: Mr Al Wootten

Agenda items so far include:

Old Business

(1) Please approve the minutes of the December Meeting.

New Business

(1) The Proposal for the Feb 23-24 Proposed Face-to-Face ASAC Meeting. --
Walmsley, Local Organizing Committee

You have made your Reservation. Now is too late!

Other dates during the timeframe:

Feb 15-16 MMAOC meeting in Washington

Feb 19-20 receiver PDR in Tucson

Feb 25-26 Configuration PDR in Grenoble

March 1 & 2 SSR Meeting in Grenoble:

Mar 5-11th Meeting on Cosmic Masers (Rio de Janeiro)

April 5-6 ACC meeting in Tokyo

Proposed agenda items from Ewine, not in priority order necessarily:
*ACA design + simulations
*toward a three-way partnership
*phase II management structure and process for implementation
*configurations, site issues
*receivers: report from Tucson PDR + production planning
*WVRs (not much news to report?)
*(future) correlator (not too long and not too many people...)
*software (we never had an in-depth discussion on this)
*status report on antennae (can be brief?)
*outreach (can be brief, but we need to spend 15 minutes on this)
*polarization....

Wolfgang has proposed he report on (as above):
*- give a summary of the front end PDR in Tucson and an overview of the
present design status (>= 30 min)
*- present ideas and conclusions from the receiver production meeting at
ESO (>= 20 min)

(2) Connection of SSR Chair to ASAC - Proposal from Glendenning and Raffi

Given the importance of software to ALMA, and the impact of ASAC decisions
on software plans, I propose that we add the SSR chair - Robert Lucas - to
the ASAC, perhaps in an ex-officio capacity. This would give a direct
"conduit" between the SSR and the ASAC. While this request was prompted by a
particular event (the incorrect reporting of the software group's opinion
about fringe tracking during OTF interferometry), I think it's a good idea
on general principles. Robert agrees, although he's able to restrain his
enthusiasm about the prospect of another phone meeting.

(3) Project Book - Emerson

There is an entry for all chapters in the project book. Please see The
Project Book and comment. Chapter 5, on receivers, front end and WVR is of
special interest.

(4)Calibration - Guilloteau

Please read the draft of an ALMA memo on receiver calibration by Guilloteau
and Moreno.

(5) Next Teleconference - After face-to-face meeting?

---New time? On Mondays Christine Wilson is unavailable from 10:30-11:30 EST
and 1:30-2:30 EST. Is Friday at 1515UT agreeable? According to one
calculation, the time zones relevant are now (1515 UT):
*0715 am PST
*1015 am EST
*1115 am Chilean time
*1515 am UT
*1615 am CET
*2415 am Japan

so this change would affect our three west coast members and Japan (where
the meeting falls on Saturday) most severely Other possibilities include
different days.